Even with the most rigorous back-up system in place, if any part of your system fails, it’s the data that’s been generated since your last back-up that’s most at risk. Not to mention the time and effort it can take to restore the data that has been backed up. And the more data you have, the more painful this can be.

With SunGard, it’s a different story. Continuous replication of your data to one of our secure Availability Services Data Centres means that whatever happens to interrupt your operations – we’ll always have your data ready and waiting when you need it most.

When your business is processing thousands of transactions per day, any threat to that data is a threat to your business. If anything interrupts this flow of information, you need to be able to restore it as quickly as possible and to the most recent transaction that may only have happened seconds ago as opposed to yesterday.

This is where replication can help. Being able to reduce your recovery time and recovery point objectives also means a tighter, sharper business continuity strategy overall. With SunGard Availability Services, complete replication means your recovery time and point objectives have never looked better.

Replicating your data used to be impossible without creating a mirror image of your production environment. Unfortunately, this also meant capital expenditure on a grand scale.

Not any more. With SunGard Availability Services, we can mirror your data for you – regardless of your hardware or production environment – at one of our secure and resilient data centres. Fully managed, scalable and capable of fast and seamless restoration of all your data, SunGard offers you all the benefits of a replicated environment with minimal capital outlay.

Replication as a Service (RaaS) from SunGard means you’re not tied to a vendor-driven hardware-based data replication solution with fixed capacity or capabilities. Instead, you can change your requirements – such as the data you’ve prioritised as business critical, or the amount of data you need to replicate – quickly and easily.

Even if your data requirement changes from week to week or month to month, SunGard offers you a completely secure environment that’s scalable enough to meet the changing demands of any growing organisation.

As their data storage needs grew over time, many organisations chose to bolt on multiple vendor solutions, leaving them in the predicament of having to purchase a mirror image of their production environment in order to replicate their data safely and away from the main business premises.

Not only can this prove to be a costly exercise but also time consuming, tying up valuable IT resources from your organisation when their time would be better spent concentrating on improving organisational IT efficiencies.

Fortunately for them, and also for you – should you be in a similar predicament – regardless of what hardware your data is housed on, SunGard simply plugs in their vendor agnostic replication core at your site, allowing you to start migrating your server portfolio to their Replication as a Service environment.

And, once done, SunGard’s Replication as a Service delivers additional benefits such as snap shots for testing as well as plugging into our extensive recovery network.